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Book Details · Subject Headings · Plot Summary · Table of Contents · Blurbs
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2008.
The (ISBN-13: 9780060297879; ISBN-10: 0060297875) hardcover edition was published in September 2008. Jacket art by Erdrich. Photo of Erdrich with family dog on inside back jacket cover by Ann Marsden.
Ojibwa Indians -- Juvenile fiction
Ojibwa Indians -- Fiction
Indians of North America -- Superior, Lake, Region -- Fiction
Family life -- Superior, Lake, Region -- Fiction
Voyages and Travels -- Fiction
Superior, Lake, Region -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
Prologue
One: Night Hunting
Two: Porcupine Soup
Three: The Memegwesi
Four: Bears and Heart Berries
Five: Prayer Feathers
Six: The Path of Butterflies
Seven: Trail of Ash
Eight: The Capture
Nine: Pushing On
Ten: What Was Left
Eleven: Wiindigoo Moon
Twelve: Aadizookaanag
Thirteen: Cry of the Dove
Fourteen: Cousins
Fifteen: Two Strike's Pain
Sixteen: The Woman Lodge
Author's Note on the Ojibwe Language
Glossary and Pronounciation Guide of Ojibwe Terms
A Few Book Notes
"What is left unspoken is as powerful as the story told."
Booklist
Modified: February 27, 2012,
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